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All of a sudden, everything just kind of went sideways and the next thing I know, it’s kind of a blink and I’m upside down still strapped in,
Peter Carlson, who was traveling to Toronto for a paramedics conference, told CBC News
The odds of getting injured or killed in an commercial airline accident is far less than driving in your car,
Guzzetti said
At this point, it’s far too early to say what the cause of this accident might be,
Ken Webster, a senior investigator for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said in a video statement TuesdayOur clients, similar to many other passengers, suffered personal injuries of a serious nature that required hospital attention,
Genova said in a statementBut the reality is that safety is embedded into our system,
he saidAirplanes are not just designed for efficiency, they are designed in the event of a highly unlikely airplane crash,
Jacobson told the Washington Examiner
You're trying to absorb energy,
Jacobson saidYou don’t want that wing ripping the fuselage in half,
Soucie told CNNWith all the forces and everything going on, if that wing is not there to support the aircraft it's going to go over,
Brickhouse saidIn an impact-survivable crash, it's more important for the seats to hold up, giving passengers the best chance of survival,
said Raj Ladani, a program manager for aerospace engineering at Australia's RMIT UniversityThis is going to be a textbook investigation,
Brickhouse saidAll of the passengers were wearing the safety belts. This prevented more serious injuries from occurring,
said Mitchell Fox, director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Aviation SafetyThe crew did a remarkable job of evacuating all of the passengers expeditiously,
Fox said of the Delta crashThe hearts of the entire global Delta family are with those affected by today’s incident at Toronto-Pearson International Airport
Bastian said
I didn't really notice anything wrong until the moment we hit the ground,
Koukov explainedJust so you're aware, there's people also walking around the aircraft there,
one person saysBeing alive feels pretty cool today
The survivor shared the stunning footage alongside the captionThis airplane has just crashed.
About 2.13pm on Monday, one official could be heard sayingPeople were hanging there for about a minute,
Koukov told NBC's Today show as he recalled the crash on TuesdayWe’ve seen a couple of cases of takeoffs where airplanes have ended up inverted, but it’
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